“To become unified and concentrated upon itself, the being must break many sensible attachments. To make itself one with others and give itself to them, it must encroach upon those intimate personal intellectual and emotional reserves that it most jealously guards. To enter into a higher life, by centering itself upon another self, it must destroy its own preliminary unity. This can mean only one thing, that at all levels of the formation of being, creative synthesis involves detachments — every aggregation being accompanied by a segregation. The moral effect is necessarily accompanied by suffering and sacrifice. That is why, in every moral condition, perfection is inseparable from suffering, and the highest life is attained through a dying. Death (which means disintegration) accompanies every change for better or worse. However, while in the case of some (which it leaves permanently disintegrated and diminished) the death is ad mortem, in the case of others (those it reintegrates as it disintegrates them) it is a transition . . . that leads to a new life.” — L’Union creatrice (December 1917) quoted in Cardinal Henri de Lubac “The Religion of Teilhard de Chardin” p. 53
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A very very good post my friend.
Robert:
Thank you my friend. I am not able to keep up with your pace as you are doing a great job! Looking forward to your book.
Peace,
W. Ockham
This is an amazing quote. Thank you for sharing it.
Some of my friends feel that the Holy Office ‘monitum’ directed upon writings of Teilhard in 1962 can now be forgotten as ‘ancient history’ I say NO; both Jesuits & Church should make highly publicized retraction of that warning—not an ‘apology’, but RETRACTION. Half,at least of our current dilemma as regards Xtian belief & practise stems from that Monumental Blunder from Vatican in 1962!
Dan:
I agree with your diagnosis and your recommendation! 🙂
Peace,
W. Ockham